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A dialogue between Lycinus (i.e. Lucian) and a Cynic philosopher. Νεκρικοὶ Διάλογοι Dialogi Mortuorum Dialogues of the Dead: 30 miniature dialogues set in the Underworld. Among the most famous of Lucian's works. Ἐνάλιοι Διάλογοι Dialogi Marini Dialogues of the Sea-Gods: 15 miniature dialogues Θεῶν ...
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Lucian of Samosata [a] (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, c. 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
The Works of Lucian of Samosata at sacred-texts.com; Loeb Classical Library, vol. 3/8 of Lucian's works Archived 2012-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, with facing Greek text, at ancientlibrary.com "Dialogues of the Gods - Dialogi deorum". World Digital Library (in Latin) A.M. Harmon: Introduction to Lucian of Samosata at tertullian.org
English: This manuscript contains ten of the dialogues of Lucianus, a second-century rhetorician and satirist who wrote in Greek, in the Latin version of Livio Guidolotto (also seen as Guidalotto or Guidalotti). Livio, a classical scholar from Urbino, was the apostolic assistant of Pope Leo X, and he dedicated his translation to the pope in an ...
In their wake, dialogues of the dead spread as a genre across Europe. [18] In England there appeared a set of contemporary dialogues titled English Lucian in 1703, [19] well before English translations of Fontenelle and Fénelon [20] and George Lyttelton's elegant imitation of them in his own Dialogues of the Dead (1760). [21]
In the second century, Lucian employed Charon as a figure in his Dialogues of the Dead, most notably in Parts 4 and 10 ("Hermes and Charon" and "Charon and Hermes"). [15] In the Divine Comedy, Charon forces reluctant sinners onto his boat by beating them with his oar. (Gustave Doré, 1857).
Two French writers of eminence borrowed the title of Lucian's most famous collection; both Fontenelle (1683) and Fénelon (1712) prepared Dialogues des morts ("Dialogues of the Dead"). [6] Contemporaneously, in 1688, the French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche published his Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion , thus contributing to the genre's ...